mediatorial
Americanadjective
Usage
What does mediatorial mean? Mediatorial means involving, relating to, or resembling a mediator—a person who mediates or helps to settle a dispute or create agreement when there is conflict between two or more people or groups by acting as an intermediary or go-between for those parties. This process is called mediation, and it always involves a mediator acting as an impartial third party to guide the communication between the conflicting parties. Sometimes, mediation happens in an informal way. You might act in a mediatorial capacity to help two friends settle an argument. But mediation and related terms are perhaps most commonly used in more specific ways in formal situations, such as mediation between a company and its striking employees or mediation between spouses who are getting divorced. Example: I tried to take a mediatorial role to smooth things over between my sisters.
Etymology
Origin of mediatorial
Example Sentences
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The Emperor and Russia have been requested in their mediatorial capacity, to send Plenipotentiaries to assist at the definitive treaties.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII by Jared Sparks
If so, how can he be in the mediatorial seat?
From A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 by Joseph Bates
Here the mediatorial aspect corroborates Mr. Manning's information.**
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
Paris, April 11th, 1783,223 Change in the British Ministry.—Russia and Austria are invited to send mediatorial plenipotentiaries to assist at the definitive treaties.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII by Jared Sparks
It consists of four books—of God, of Jesus as a Mediator, of the effects of His mediatorial work, and of the exterior forms of the Church.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
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